Talking about HTML5 games development at MIT in Boston

As part of our university outreach programme, a few Mozilla people and volunteers went to Boston last week to give a series of lectures on web technologies for games development.

During the week we covered topics like WebGL for 3D development, basics of JavaScript, debugging and performance, canvas development, offline development and local storage and multimedia on the web. We’ll make these slides available in the comments to this blog post.

To be honest, I’d love to see the audio tag work in Firefox. I’ve got my /test.html page ready for when I buy the extra space to host my music on my site. The only problem I have with the codes, though, is that no matter which codec I use (.ogg, .wav, .mp3, etc.), Firefox just gives me a giant dark gray ‘x’ in place of the audio player. It works in all other browsers I’ve tested it on, except for IE, but at least IE gives the correct fallback text.

I’m using Flash players until FF supports audio tags properly, but the Flash-induced page load time feels like dial-up. I’ve heard that the issue may be just server side, but to be honest, if it was a server issue, Opera, Chrome, and Safari would have the same problems.